What do you believe...?

Question

How does one get to heven? please let me know why you believe what you do. Thanks

Answer 1

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus was lifted up at the cross, where he paid the penalty for our sin, separation from God. When we believe in him it's because we have felt conviction for sin, and we have the desire to turn away from our own sin, and we believe that God forgives us through the sacrifice that Jesus made for us personally.

Answer 2

Getting into heaven...
Well there is actions and works. There is prayer.
There are many human type thoughts on this subject.
I lately think GOD determines your final reward, and humans will never understand why souls are where they finally are.
GOD has interwoven our lives to such a degree that if one to live 99 years she/he could influence everyone on this planet to some degree. Or as our free will determines humans actions she/he could sit in a room for 99 years and influence no one. Yet either could be rewarded with heaven, or punished by hell - GOD will look into the soul and what GOD finds humanity will never know. Few humans are that open to let everything deep inside them open to others, as we will be with GOD.
Obviously Jesus, to many (and me), laid out a path that removed many questions, and I feel very comfortable by following this path, I mess up and veer off in tangents - but I recover enough that other humans (religious, priests, etc.) feel I'm back on course. There has to other paths laid out by other holy people, so I can not help eliminate a path. You do the best you can, and keep learning and helping until you die.
Luckily there are many here more educated, that can help.
I hope you have a great adventure on your way to heaven - have something to talk about when you get there, and enjoy the view.
Peace.

Answer 3

I don't believe there is a place we can go after death to be eternally slothful. It makes no sense. If God has already done it all, if heaven has everything people need, what purpose would there be for work?

Worshiping God forever.... does it make sense? Nothing but praise and worship? Doesn't that make for a somewhat narcissistic being?

I believe in reincarnation, a progression, where we are constantly learning and growing.

Answer 4

I believe everyone gets to Heaven no matter what, but that it is just a waystation before reincarnation. I also don't believe Heaven is some cloudy realm where angels dance and play harps all day. Though I don't have any set ideas on what it is.

Answer 5

good question... for me it was hard to understand things in the bible and believing... but the thing that hgelped me was that i read the bible and believed everything it said...

i used to challenge it a lot but now i cant stop defending it....

the way to heaven is through jesus and as long as you believe that he came to forgive us of our sins and he is your lord and savior, you will recieve him.

you can do a little prayer asking for forgiveness of all the sins you have committed and ask, and tell god that you want to live a life like jesus, god will see your heart and right there you are written in the book of life.

if you want to talk more you can im me anytime... jjaenagle or beemerin and its either yahoo or aol

Answer 6

Nothing gets you to Heaven. Heaven doesn't exist. I believe what I do because there are no gods. The vast evidence suggests that gods are man-made and not real. There's no reason why there would be any gods.

Answer 7

As a christian I believe Christ came and died on the cross as an atonement for our sins. When we receive him as savior our sins are forgiven. His gift to us is eternal life in heaven.

Answer 8

Man is meant to live on earth.

Do all good people go to heaven?

Acts 2:34: “David [whom the Bible refers to as being ‘a man agreeable to Jehovah’s heart’] did not ascend to the heavens.”

Matt. 11:11: “Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.” (So John did not go to heaven when he died.)

Ps. 37:9, 11, 29: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”

If Adam had not sinned, would he eventually have gone to heaven?

Gen. 1:26: “God went on to say: ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.’” (So, God’s purpose for Adam was that he be caretaker of the earth and of the animal life there. Nothing is said about his going to heaven.)

Gen. 2:16, 17: “Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: ‘From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.’” (It was not Jehovah’s original purpose for man someday to die. God’s command here quoted shows that he warned against the course that would lead to death. Death was to be punishment for disobedience, not the doorway to a better life in heaven. Obedience would have been rewarded by continued life, eternal life, in the Paradise that God had given to man. See also Isaiah 45:18.)

Must a person go to heaven to have a truly happy future?

Ps. 37:11: “The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.”

Rev. 21:1-4: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth . . . I heard a loud voice from the throne say: ‘Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”

Mic. 4:3, 4: “They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.”

Answer 9

sweety, the Bible states that God has already chosen the 144,000 men & women who have the hope of heavenly life and the rest of us will be living here on earth in paradise-like conditions.

Answer 10

I believe we should live in the present and not worry about the fairyland.